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Canal memories revisited at Port Union lock feature
Union Township historian Virginia Showalter leads a canal feature about the Erie Canal lock at Port Union. Residents recall mule towpaths, electric mules, and local rail shifts as preservation hopes rise for a 200 year old relic and nearby Rialto canal.
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Erie Canal
Union Township
Virginia Showalter
Union-Libert Democratic Womens’ Cly
Virginia
Port Union
New York
Cincinnati
Iron Horse
Rialto
Virginia Shewalter
Bill Randolph
Miami University
Jill
Excello
Middletown
Metamora
PULSE
George Croft
Middletown Journal
The
ULJ
Cleda Tarvin
Mary Gandler
Rialto Road
Ralph Bicknell